Senior Manager - Financial Operations Program Lead

Job Description: Senior Manager - Financial Operations Program Lead Excelerate is seeking a strategic FinOps Program Lead to manage a high-impact initiative for a FinTech client. This 12-month contract role requires full-time availability and on-site presence in Mountain View. Key Responsibilities: • Headcount & Vendor Management: Oversee processes for hiring full-time employees and contingent workers. • Vendor Contract Data Management: Review and analyze vendor contract data to support contract workforce and Offshore Service Provider (OSP) strategies within the product development lifecycle. • Data & Tools: Build dashboards and tools to manage and visualize large datasets related to headcount, financials, and vendors. • Insights & Risk Management: Analyze data to provide actionable insights and proactively identify business risks. • Program Execution: Manage schedules, budgets, and milestones to ensure timely, high-quality delivery. • Client Engagement: Lead key meetings, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and deliver with excellence. • Strategic Thinking: Translate complex data into business cases to support decision-making. • Cross-functional Leadership: Work effectively across disciplines and organizational boundaries to prioritize, problem-solve, and drive alignment. • Independently lead large, complex projects and programs with little to no coaching. • Build structure and guide complex projects through highly ambiguous situations. • Understanding of data-driven decision-making and the ability to assess market trends, client data to develop complex business cases to inform go/no-go decision-making. • Utilize Project Management frameworks to develop detailed work breakdown structures and project plans while translating those detailed plans into consumable and manageable summaries for client executives. • Provide exceptional client delivery through critical thinking, proactive problem-solving, and risk mitigation. Qualifications: • 8+ years in management consulting, with experience in strategic program management and change management & and training. • Expertise in handling financial, headcount, and contract data. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to derive insights from large, complex datasets. • Proficiency in Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Slides) and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI). • Proficient in project management tools and methodologies (Agile, Lean). • Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with experience engaging senior stakeholders. • Comfortable in large, complex organizations (1,000+ people). • Experience with Generative AI, Fintech, or Finance is a plus. • Availability to be on-site in Mountain View is required. • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred. Employment Type: Project-based (not benefits eligible) Duration: 12 months, 40 hours a week